“My father allowed me to study art because he was a big feminist…[he] wanted his daughters to be financially independent. But he wanted me to study computer science….I financed my own education, my own studio — and this is very rare, even in the Western world. The whole time I was studying art privately. I would go and take weekend or evening courses. It was my passion; it was meant to happen. It was just a matter of time.”
-Saudi Artist Manal AlDowayan, in an interview with the New York Times about her life and work that explores the changes in the Kingdom.
